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He Leads Us On. He leads us on By paths we did not know. Upward He leads us, though our steps be slow, Though oft we faint and falter on the way, Though storms and darkness oft obscure the day, Yet when the clouds are gone We know He leads us on. He leads us on Through all the unquiet years; Past, all our dreamland hopes and doubts and _ fears Be guides our steps, mrougn au me langteu maze Of ain, of sorrow, and o'erclouded days We know His will is done; And still He leads vis on. And He, at last, After the weary strife, After the restless fever we call life, After the dreariness, the aching pain, The wayward struggles which have proved in vain. After our toils are past, Will give us rest at last. ? Golden Hours, RELIGIOUS READING. Itfo U?o. There is no use in putting up the motto, "God bless our home," if the father is a rough old bear, and the spirit of discourtesy and nideuess is taught by the parents to the children, and by the older to the younger. There is no use iu putting up a motto, "The Lord will provide," while the father is shiftless, the mother is shiftless, the boys * 1- A reiuse in wuriij jiuu mv, themselves over gewgaws and finery. There is no use in putting up the motto, "The greatest of these is charity," while the tongue of the backbiter wags in that family, and silly gossip is dispensed at the tea-table. There is no use in placing up conspicuously the motto, "The liberal man deviseth liberal tilings," while the money chinks in the pockets of "the hea:l of the household," groaning to get out to see the light of day, and there are dollars and dimes for wines and tobacco and other luxuries, but positively not one cent for the church. In how many homes are these mottoes standing?let U3 say hanging?sarcasms, which serve only to poi?it a jest and adorn a satire? The beauty of quiet lives, of trustful, hopeful, free-handed, free-hearted, charitable lives is one of surpassing loveliness, and those lives shed their own incomparable fragrance, and the world knows where to find them. And they shall remain fresh and fadeless when the colors of pigment and the worsted and the floss have faded, and the frames have rotted away in their joints. Mamma, are You a ChristinnV While holding meetings in an opera house in a Western city, I asked all the children who believed that they were Christians, and who had the evidence of it (I showed them what that evidence was), to hold up their hinds. With many others, a beautiful little girl sitting by her mother, with a smile upon her face, held up her hand. I then asked this question?I think the Holy Spirit led me do do it?"How many of your parents are alive to the love of Jesus? Were they and yon to die today would you meet them in Heaven?" That little girl quietly turned to her mother, and said, "Shall I hold up my hand mama? Are you a Christian?" uNo> I am not a Christian. Do not hold up your hand!" The child buret into tears saying: "Mamma, I do not want to go to heaven if you are not to be there!" The weeping mother said to me in the inquiry-meeting: 4 'My child's words have broken mv heart! O what shall I do to ? ^ be saved? My darling child is on the my to heaven, and I am not 1" I told her how she, too, could be made "alive unto God;" how he who raised | Lazarus to life, and who died on the cross for us, could save her if she would only trust Him. We prayed together, and I could but hope that she was led to see how God, for Christ's sake, who suffered so much for us, could forgive her all her sins, and make her a living, happy Chris- j tian, like her beautiful little daughter.? I ?. P. Hammond, in EvungeUst. . I Live ns You Teach. The Rev. J. F. Sergeant, writes an article to the London Sabbath School Tcach- , er upon the importance of following up the teachings of the lips by the teachings of the life. He says: /'I do not say to you that you should study appearances?and carefully guard against being accounted as a hypocrite. I say rather that you should study realities, and seek to be everywhere and at all times a real and attractive disciple. If you are addicted to the pleasures of the a , IttDIC, CTT liriuiuiu m>u vauuumtiuus uv. your home, or if you are vain in dress or Serson, or hard or unfair in your money ealings, or vindictive and fierce in your behaviour to your friends, it will all come out, and every scholar connected with you will quietly apply to you the proverb, 'Physician, heal thyself.' "I knew a teacher, wealthy and talented. Ilis fault was that he was too eager for money, and it was the less excusable as he had no family fur whom he needed to lay by. A blight seemed to rest upon his work, and when at last he invested a considerable sum in purchasing a public house, property which was of a very low character morally, but which yielded a good return fur his ? money, his influence sank down to an utter cipher. I shall never forget the contempt with which one of his scholars Rnnlcn to m<> about him. Jl.xd he be<ni . ? an avowed man of the world there would have been nothing in him to be despised. But his professed aims and hopes were higher than those of the worldling, and it was humbling to him to be looking for an increase to Ins gains in the gutters of excess and vice. 'Perhaps he meant to improve the public houses by introducing berter tenants, and checking all bad lanf" jjuacr** habits.' Thank you dear reader for tliat kindly surmise. Perhaps he did; but perhaps he didn't. I dare say, however, lie meant it. The devil will not in the least object to a man meaning well if he will stop there. "I know this much, that the respect of a circle of intelligent lads who gatlier around us to listen to what we can tell them of God and righteousness, is worth more than interest at ten per cent, upon money investments. Pity that this good man did not know it to. If however, evil example tells, so does good. The fragrance of the ointment will make itself known. All upright, ^ loving, generous men sjjeak in his very actions." Temperance Notes. Baron Rothschild has become a total abstainer. A bushel of com which is sold to the distiller for thirty cents is resold by him in the shape of whisky for $40.50. The Gark bill to provide for scientific temperance in the public schools, has passed both branches of the Iowa legislature. The State Remitter Bays of it that it is one of the best measures that has * ever been passed by any legislature. PULPIT MOTS. Extracts From tho Strmons of Tno/lI'Tif* Wff York Ministers. JUVUUIII^ A1V?? ? Owing to the absence of Rev. Dr. Talmage from his pulpit in the Brooklyn Tabernacle we do not give his customary sermon in this issue, but print in liju thereof extracts from tho sermons of prominent metropolitan ministers: K. ITE3ER NEWTON* OX TRUE IDEAS OF GOD. " The Rev. R. Heber Newton, preached at A.l Souls' Church, in West Forty-eighth street. ''The Scientific Idea of God and the Spiritual Vision of a Heavenly Father" was his their.e. "It seems to me," said Mr. Newton, uthat a true idea of God ought to be able to verify itse'f in the general (o "S iousness of man. This is tho conclusion wh ch jcience roaches as Mr. Abbott interprets her thought: 'Because, as an infinite organism, it thus manifests intm.te wisdom, power, and goodness, or thought, feeling,ana ? *l fulliiA.c? onrl Ka.-ancA Will 111 lyllt'iX ill LAiIA7 i. u.i.1 i;u"o, uuvi uv\mu^v these three constitute the essential manifestations o. personality, it must be conceived as infinite person, absolute spirit, creative source, and eteinal ho ne of the derivitive 1 n.te peisjna ities whi.h d.pend upon it. but are no less realthaa itse.f. * * * Whit is th is but infinite beatitude, infinite ben gnity. infinite love?the all-embracing fatherhood and motherhood of Hod.' "Let me tall you how, in a very simple fa h on. I reach*this bles-ed assurance. Fiom the un ty of nature it follows that all forms of being are } artial manifestations of this infinite aud eternal eno:gy. That which is essentially human is unaoubtodly what we, for lack of a better tjrm, call personality?intel| ligence conscious of itself, free in the power or will, owning the moral law. If we ao not find personality iu the cry tal and the beetle, and but a dreamlike personality in the dog, and if we do find su-;h personality in man, v\hi:h fact are we to trust as the better expression of the infinite and eternal energy that is in us all? The answer of evolution to this quesiijn is unmistakable. The higher forms of life must more truly express thejnature of the infinite and eternal energy- than the lower forms can possibly do. Over a mud ly creek a willow hangs and tries to image it's soft flowing lines in tne waters below, how vainly! Above the clear crystal water of the mountain tarn, 'the sacred p ne' stoops and sees its noble form faithfuiiy mirrored in the lake. Each finer organism is capable of reflecting a finer imo wnf t.ha f?pA whio.h hroods OVBr US. seek ii g to mirror itself. Man is the mystic flower of the great tree IgdrasiL I must interpret the dim, shadowy outline of the Infinite Power which thtsa lower form? trace for me by the clearer, nobler form which comes forth in my consciousness. My consciousness yields as the ess >n :ial human fact the idea of personality. I am a man inasmuch as I am , an intelligence conscious of itself, free in the . power of will, owning the moral law. I am , obliged then to look up iuto the face which bends down over life seeking to mirror itself, and trust the re lection which comes forth in , my nature of the pen 0:1 1 power whom I , must all Father. The Divine Being is n >t less tuau personal, however, much more than , personal He may be. He cannot be unconscious, since unconsciousness in nature is the lower form of be.ng which opens into conscioisne>s. Hj caa-xos be u:unoril, sin;e nature, as it strains toward man, passes out of the ca ra iudifferantism of tue brut9 into & hungering and thirsting after rights >usn ?ss. God canaot be heartless, since tha very measure of man lies in the heart. 1 4iBe au>e of what I am, a? a man, I am obliged to think of God not less than man but only more than man, not subhuman bub j superhuman, essentially humanity, lilted ' highorand breath j J out to larger form. Evo- ' lution goes on in numanity. Climb now to 1 the very topmost crest of humanity, the ] supremely good one of earth. Whatmons- ' i. aa.,1 1 n ii.nl o aiidofmn j U UUS 11 Cdtt. UI iuauu^3 uv.u 4 u [Uaitt vicawivu capable, through slow, orderly p.-ogressive ' development, of unfolding su?h a human ( flower as Jesus of Na-areth without having, ] below this li nbing growth, a life in which it 1 roots, infinite and eternal, the source and 1 spring, the type and pattern, of this flower of J nature! We overheard thi soliloquies of his ' soul tolling the vision mirrored in the calm, * clear waters of his soul, as the sun's fa e is < caught and held in the blue mountain lake. ' Over the face of Jesus, thj face that benils ' and broods, is a greater human la?e?0n9 ] in whose image he saw himself to be made. ' Reuan confesses: 'The highest con- j I sciousuess of God whict ever existed J ' in the breast of humanity was j that of Jesus.' This granted, the con sciousnes3 of Jesus be .-omes the supreme word ? I of God, a word in which we are to trust im- ] plicitly, not as a something wholly apart 1 from our own consuouu?ess, but as the artic- ( u'ate utterance of the thought that struggles ] for expression in ourselves, the clear vision ! whifh in fchn nifiinnrv man is but shadow 1 and cloud. Spinoza declared Jesus to be the ' templeof God, in which God most fully re J veals himself. The revelation of Godin Christ is the consciousness of God in 3 Jesus. The blood of the Eternal beats them in our veins." I THINKING THAT LEADS TO UNBELIEF. Dr. White, of the West Twenty-third Street Presbyterian church, took his text from Hebrew xii, 15-16. He said in part: "Men from intellectual pride sell their birthright by turning away from God and professing to find a g..d among the philosophical idols of < the day. The te nptation comes in this form: If I wish to prove my intellovtual vigor I must not accept anything upon trust. I I must demand that everything be explaiued so that its mysteries be cleared up; then I i must not accept anything as true that cannot i I Ina V? ?r 4-U/\ .m* itr/\ of ai ,c r\f IaoI n W UJ bUC oropo V/i iV^lv v? f demonstrated by tha exhibition of scientific ' experiment. The old faith of my fathers is ( very simple and very comforting, but I mu t ( not be misled by any unexp.a nod instincts ' of my nature, n >r de uded by any pretended 1 revelation from the unseen. world. To be ' sure thousands of women and children aud 1 of simple-minded men have accopted this j faith in God and Christ with >ut any very searching intellectual examination, but I re- 1 quire pi-oof. < "Now, all this is very well if it is tin honest : utterance of a man who truly desires to know I the truth and who with every fa ulty awakened proposes fairly to examine theevi- J dences for Christian.ty; such h^n-st seeker | will be aid-d by God. But. alas! too many are po-se3 ;ed witn mceii rtuai vanity wiiue they have neither intellectual strength nor 1 intellectual honesty. They hear of one aud ? another prominent scientist wh) amuses himself as an unbeliever; or, as tne expression t now is, an agn s ic, or a positivist, and it flatters their vanity to say that with su h wo take our stand. They ma ice no original in- t vestigation. Thoy mako no earnest study of . eviionm If they rea -h anything up >n the subject it is upon the destructive side. Tney \ sneer at the idea that any new thoughts can f be given them that will support the old faith. 1 They withhold absent an i pose as unbelievers, t and think it 8|?a cs well for their intellectual independence that they are dis -iples of this or c that s -ientist. Now, no one more than I ap- [ proves of iniepen lent th mg'ut?of a i earn- . est det?rmiuation to Le able to give a reason * for the hope that is in one. I rejoi .-e to Know i that any man is loajstly asking for proj^ j even of the highest divine truths, but I do say that for any man from intellectual vau- t itv, from a desire to appear to understan I j what he ha? neve.* i~ei.lly studied, from an ambition to call himself by the name of this t or that great master, to turn aside fro n the j faith of his fathers, to >hut h s eyes lo the signs of God's prosen e. to steel his heart t against the influe ice of the Holy Soirit is to ? sell his birthright for a mess of pottage." s A PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE. , The Rev. W. P. Price, of the Mvlison Avenue Congregational cnurh: " 'Hirn that , overcoineth I will make a p.liar in the timple t cf my God.' Wo classify men as wise aud foolish, happy and miserable, grasping and generous, but th9 btst clasd.ication is on the c basis of their attitude toward fciu?are they r yielding vo aw struggling against it? Many \ who struggle fall because tii^y have no ^ abiding place. A stone built into a temple is fixed: it is necessary where it is and use.ess anywh *re else. T.ie day when it was he.vn I i<? forgot on. Men and wome i are comiug in j ad '.Tin ? out of the te'npi^ aauv a?King ( strength from 0- d an1 tlien huTyiu^ bav-K iuto the world to use it for their own saltish, enls; but thj pillars of the temple re.naln. * T iey omtK'i.i uo slay, an.I they go no more r out. Thi-.ro are nvn who love thnr country < be*-au83 of 'h* ndvantnccs she Rives tham, i and others for her own sa'ce. The latter class a i e the pati iota. Th nr nam^s go down 1 in history, never to be lost or forgotten. ?. Some study solely for tha advantages ] whi.-h education will give them, others for t the sake of truth alone. Theaj are , enrolled x* the great scholars of the world. PHW??a?a????Mm IBH i?gi S "> those who serve God for His truth's saKe, who s "ive to fulfil the enl for which th?y were ci .*ated, thoy are those who are pillars in Hr temnlH. ami who eo out thenco no more they must first 1 e hewn out, aad fitted to ths?r places by contact with tb?? work' in the struggle for life. They often feel the blows of the hammer fitting them to become stones in the temple, shaped by toil and suffering into the likeness of God, perfect and everlasting. And upon the stones of the temple shall be cut three inscriptions, that all may know that it is the temple of Go J ; 'The name of my 6o;l, the name of the city of my God and my now name.'" RELIGIOl'S LESSONS FROM THE OREGON*. The Rev. U. H. Smith, of the St. James Protestant Episcopal church: ''The bhip is the most human work of man and ^ually the divine work of God. The most human because it is so like the human body. But how were its parts so perfectly combined in two ways: by man, who during long centuries studied the physical laws of the Creator, and by God subtly guiding man. The many overlook the fact that ships are as distinctly the works of God as trees or rivers or oceans. Man has simply been doing what God planned for him to do. Now, the re is something in that sunken Oregon like the generations of the past. Ever}' present generat:on is brought into its inheritance in the arms of the generatirm vnnicViimr Rpfnrmnrs nmlfinor it. rvnht.oi* for posterity to live, ancl then as tlieir work is done vanishing. The Son of God in saving the world leaves the world. But lcok not only at the dark side but also at the bright side. See Christ's willingness to do so long as He lived to see the redemption of mankind. Look at the joy of parents as life bbs away if only they see their childreu happy. This is the parable of the sinking ship. There is also t'.i j parable of the saved traveler. We sail ou the sea of life. Our bodies are the ships in which our souls are passengers. God brought every one safe to shore trom the sinking Oregon. The ship alone was lost. Shall it be so with you, my brother?" ft THE JUST DEMANDS OF MISSION WORK. The Rev. Dr. J. N. Fitzgerald preached in the Central Methodist Episcopal church on the subject of "Missions." He said in part: Many persons, when asked to contribute to missionary work, consider that their donations are to be expended entirely in foreign missions,' and say that there is plenty of room for all their donations and labor at home. If that is a candid remark, a fair hearing should be accorded to it; but if it is merely an excuse to get out of making a contribution to * * a -li _ _i: _lt l tbe worK, il snouiu not receive wie recognition. This society, in the Methodist church, reaches to all classes of people at home and abroad. In thd home mission one may specify to what particular departmentof it he desires his contribution to go. the Indian, or to the Chinese, that race which has responded to the proverbial saying: "Uncle 8am has room enough to give us all a farm," have come to this country, an i have been trrannized and brutally treated in a mannpr the like of which has never occurred before in a civilized country. Others want their contributions to go to helping the work raising rp th3 blacks; others to the Germans; others to the Swede, Swiss or Scandinavian. In all these bra* -lies of home and foreign missions this society ha-; workers. But if you cannot decide upon which particular department in which you wish to put your monev, place it in the general contribution, a.nd a little will be sent to help the worker in all parts of the world. WITAT TRUE LIBERTY IS FOR MEN. Dr. Hall preached in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church on "True Liberty." He said: " There are various kinds of freedom. We may think of it on the social and political plane, and then wo may have freedom !rom tyranny. Or on the moral nlane and we lave freedom from bad habits of living. Or jn that of spiritual life, aud we have deliverance from sin aud from the fear that hath Corment. We are citizens of the United States, and it is common to eay we are free. But we know that there are forms of bondage that are entirely compatible with >ur free institutions. "VVe know how a ring may worm itself around a commuuity md put it under bondage. A judge may infn o nlona LllUiiat^O (AS UlUtOVli. 4UWV V? piuvv A. A VU1 svhich it is difficult to dislodge him,who may ae bribed to defend the guilty and oppress ;he innocent. If men are slow to acknowlsrlge such bondages as these, it is not strange ;hat they will not acknowlede their state of -noral bondage. It is through Jesus that true iberty comes. There are spurious forms of freedom. A young man throws off the restraints of houie lire and even of society, and ;rayels over the world with no check upon ;he indulgin of his tastes and of his lusts. Is le free? Is he not rather a slave to his passions? A man makes money getting his obiect and throws off the straints of hoaestv. He s uot free. Everything that is good has its ;ounterfeit. Never confound the counterfeit with the reality. We hear a good deal about she region of law. No matter how good you ire socitlly you are in the grip of God's aw. He is infinitely just, and if you are not penitent, His law of death will be enforced, rhe spirit of life in Christ Jesus can make pou free from the law of sin and death. TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. A Fatal Defect. '' One of the queerest cases I ever heard jf," said the story-teller in the smoking ;nr, u is down in our town. There's a aiun there who has a peculiar defect. I inow him well. He's a draughtsman, uid an accomplished man. He can draw mything he is asked to draw, with a solitary exception, and do as good a job )f it a3 any man m the country. But ;hat one exception lost him his situation, lis wife, his friends, and his reputation, ind now it is killing ' him. Isn't it strange?" 4< Very. But what is that he can't iraw." " A sobsr breath."?Chicaao Herald. Dwelve Presidents "Who Favored Temperance. The Buffalo Courier says: The Hon. 2. C. Dclavan secured the signatures of i number of the presidents of the United >ta;e9 to a declaration against ardent .pirits as a drink. In 1862 Mr. Delavan vrote as follows: "The certificate of wclve Presidents I deem interesting as veil as instructive. "When I obtained he signatures of the first three, about hirty years ago, by a personal visit to sach, the movement against alcohol as a >everage was confined to distilled spirits; lien the impression was gcne:al that fcrnented drinks were safe in moderation, nit science has since settled the question h:it alcohol is exactly the same poison n what are teimed fermentod drinks is in distilled; that, indeed, in both it s formed by fermentation, and that aiiI/1 V\n ?a 1 mnrnnvinf\r in nnllinrr Utiv; M V/UUi ug 1IV 11IJ|/1 W?S4 Al. vjr vuiuu^ ill kinds of intoxicating drinks ardent spirits. Pure brandy is distilled from vine, and should be called distilled vine/' The following is the declaraion, with the signatures: Being satisfied from observation and sxpenence, as well as from medical testinonv, that ardent spirit, a-> a drink, is lot only needless, but hurtful, and that he entire disuse of it would tend to pronote the health, the virtue and the hap)iness of the community, we hereby ex)ress our conviction that should the :itizens of the United States, and especii ly the young men, discontinue entirely he use of it they would not only pronote their own personal benefit, but the joe d of our country and the world. r *r t* rn . ?? i ames ajladibok, jcj. 1 axiaiis, Andrew Jackson, Millard Fillmore, roiix Q. Adams, James K. Polk, Van Buken, James Buchanan, Fohn Tyler, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Pierce, Andrew Johnson. Gondii's Tribute lo Cold Water. Of all the powerful execrations on rum delivered by the lat? Jolm B. Gougli, tlic most powerful has never been published. I carr.c across it to-day, says a Wooster (Ohio) correspondent. It is in Gough's rvti-n ImiiflirHfiniT ntul n-<is (Ifilii-prMl )iv U1U11IIUIU.M4W..6, MJ him twenty-six years ago. After its delivery, a young law student in the audionce, Mr. T. S. Shepherd, now a resideut of "VVooster, asked Mr. Gough to favor him with his words in writing. Mr. Go ugh consented, on condition that the manuscript never be published while he ( was on the lecture platform. The con- : ditions were assented to, and Mr. Gough jotted down the following apostrophe on ! water and execration on rum as he had , delivered them while holding a glass of < water in his hand: ] "There is no poison in that cup; no ( fiendish spirit dwells beneath those i crystal drops to lure you and me and all < of us to ruin; no spectral shadows play upon its waveless surface; no widows' groans or orphans' tears rise to God from | those placid fountains; misery, crime, ] wretcneaness, "\voc, want anu nigs come not within the hallowed precincts where ] cnld water reigns supreme. Pure now a9 ' when it left its native heaven, giving vigor to our youth, strength to our man hood, and solace to our old age. Cold ! water is beautiful, and bright and pure ' everywhere. In the moonlight foun- ' ta!n i and the sunny rilb; in the warbling brook and the giant river; in the deep < tangled wildwood and the cataract's ' spray; in the hand of beauty or on the i lips of manhood?cold water is beautiful everywhere. "Kum! There is a poison in that cup. 1 There is a serpent in that cup whose sting ] is madness, and whose embrace is death. ' There dwells beneath that smiling sur- 1 face a fiendish spirit which for centuries has been wandering over the earth, car- * rying on a war of desolation < and destruction against mankind, ! blighting and mildewing the noblest < affections of the heart and 1 corrupting with its foul breath the tide of human life and changing the glad, green earth into a lazar house. Gaze on it! But shudder as you gaze! Those ! sparkling drops are murder in disguise; ] so quiet now, yet widows' groans and ' orphans' tears and maniacs' yells are in that cup. The worm that dieth not and the tire that is not quenched are in that cup. i "Peace and hope, and love and truth < dwell not within that fiery circle where ' dwells that desolating monster which 1 men call rum. Corrupt now as when it i left its native hell, giving fire to the eye, 1 madness to the brain and ruin to the i soul. Rum is vile and deadly and ac- f cursed everywhere. The poet would i * liki.-n it in its fiery glow to the flames th it ?' fiickcr around the abode of the damned. 1 The theologian would point you to the drunkard's doom, while the historian I would unfold the dark record of the J past and point you to the fate of empires i and kingdoms lured to ruin by the siren c song of the tempter, and sleeping now in t cold obscurity, the wrecks of what once ] were great, grand and glorious. Yes, mm is J corrupt and vile and deadly and accursed 1 everywhere. Fit type and semblance of i all earthly corruption! 1 "Base art thou yet as when the wise ? man warned us of thy power and bade us i lice thy enchantment. Vile art thou yet 1 as when thou first went forth on thy unholy mission?filling earth with desola- i tion and madness, woe and anguish. : Deadly art thou yet as when thy enven- i omed tooth first took fast hold on liu- < man hearts, and thy serpent tongue first * drank up the warm life blood of iminor- 1 tal souls. Accursed art thou yet as when J the bones of thy first victim rotted in a 1 damp grave, and its shriek echoed along * the gloomy caverns of hell. Yes thou ? infernal spirit of rum; through all past * time hast thou been, as through all coming time lli.u shalt be, accurscd everywhere. "In the fiery fountains of the still;' in * the seething bubbles of the cauldron; in t the kingly palace and the drunkard's 8 hovel; in the rich man's cellar and the I poor man's closet; in the pestilential * vapors of foul dens, and in the blaze of * gilded saloons; in the hand of beauty * and on the lip of manhood. Rum is vile c and deadly and accursed everywhere. ^ "Hum, we yield-not to thy unhallowed c influent::', and together we have met to c pian thy destruc tion. And by what new * name shall we call thee, and to what 1 shall we liken thee when we speak of thy I " II i! .l!IJ I attriDUtes. uiners may can inee cnuu v of perdition, the base born progeny of sin and Satan, the murderer of mankind j and the destroyer of immortal souls; but . I this night will give thee a new name among men and crown thee with a new jj horror, and that name" shall be the sacramental cuo of the rum uower. and I will . say to all the sons and daughters ol eartn? ?Dnshit downl And thou rum, shalt * be my text in my pilgrimage among men, a d not alone shall my tongue utter it, ? but the groans of orphans in their agony . I and the cries of widows in their desola- ' tion shall proclaim it the enemy of home, ^ the traducer of childhood, and the de- ~ cfrnr-^r nf mnnhnnrl wtinsp nnlv nn tidote is the sacramental cup of temper- 1 ance, cold water!" * t The Bar Room as a Bank. ' You deposit your money and lose it. * You deposit your time and lose it. f You deposit your character and lose it. f You deposit your health and lose it. 1 You deposit your manly independence . and lose it. You deposit your self control and lose it. You deposit your home conajTort and * lost it. c Viiti (li'nosit vnnr wifp's }inr?'mnp?v5 nnil lose it. Y You deposit your children's happiness \ and lose it. ? You deposit your own soul and lose it. t ____________________ e a A Boston clergyman was asked re- f cently what he did in his church t& ^ break np the habit, so frequent at c church sociables, of ladies arranging f themselves in rows or clusters, thereby 1 causing the gentlemen to do the same. 1 His answer waa that the game of "mis- t sionary" was the best and most popular c way of doing it, and on being asked s for an explanation of the game, gave v I the following: "We arrange all the j ladies about the room, and request a c gentleman to stand directly in front of p each of them. Then it id announced \ that the young ladies are to represent 'missionaries' and the young gentlemen ^ 'heathen.' A signal is then given, and 1 tho heathen then embraces 'christi- 8 anity.'n P FARM m HOUSE. TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Fertilizer for Potatoes. The largest and best crop of potatoes have been grown with artificial fertilizers. A special potHto manure is made expressly for this crop, put up with a certain proportion of potash, phosphoric acid, nitrogen, and lime to meet the requirements of the plant. Barn manure or any vegetable matter encourages the wire worms, which injure the tubers and cause scab or,roughness of the skin, and so reduces the market v?lu3 greatly. The artificial fertilizers contain muriate of potash, which is poisonous to animal i:r_ a 1 _r 1: ?_,1 uiu, auu Bu[jurpuuspiiaiu ui lime uuu ammonia, which arj extremely malodorous and distasteful to insects. About 600 pounds per acre of the fertizer is considered a full requirement; half is harrowed in before planting and half spread broadcast after it.?New York Times. Setting Tarred Posts. Some poits were bsing set around our public square| some farmers were watching the work and one sa'd the ends of the posts that were in the ground should be daubed with tar. ? Another said, no, it would do more liarm than good. A third said the tar should be put on when the post is dry and extend some inches above the surface of the ground. The first mnn was right in thinking that tar was good for preserving posts, but was wrong in thinking that it was ?ood to apply under all circumstances, rhe second was, to some extent, right in ldvising against the use of tar, as it has been found that when applied to green posts it not only keeps the water out but also keeps the sap in, and thus hastens decay. The third was right in saying the tar should be applied when the posts were Iry and extend some inches above the iurface of. t!;p ground, for it has been ibscrved that decay is more rapid at this jfoint than above or below. These men had right ideas as far as they went, but not g.nng far enough were likely to result in injur)', and in a few minutes' conversation in interchange of ideas all got broader views andwcTebeneSted.?Rural World. Guarding Against Drought. La t season was in many places unusu. >1 ' 1. J1 1 LK X ^ L uiy moisi, uuu u s rt-asunuuit; iu e.\pjui/ considarable dry weather this summer, rhis is not- so serious an evil as many iarmers think, because it can be guarded igainst, especially with cultivated crops. Early planting alone is often sufficient to nake a crop of early potatoes on rich soil, ind this is irtade more certain by plantng only on clover sod, who.-e decay will ittract moisture during the critical time kvlien the tubers are forming. The same result may also be obtained Dy allowing the young clover to get a growth of ten to twelve inchcs in height, md then turning it under. This succulent mass roots so rapidly that it fills ;he soil with moisture which not even a u-otiactcd drought will dry out. Sowing ;alt or ashes on the surface of the soil las also the effect of making it more etentivc of moisture. Many farmers relieve that the good effects of the gyp111m arc due to the moisture which it ittracts from the air and deposits upon he leaves of plants. Probably the best of all ways to present drought is persistent cultivation, md especially whenever there is a little noisture from rain or dews. As the iilfitrnf nr tnma flna wofor ti nrlnr fVtn /UlbiT UWU1 luiliu VUIO ti uuv??.t vitv iurface it is retained, the loose soil actng as a mulch to protect it from cvap>rating. As light summer rains falling n a dry time are rich in ammouia, requent cultivation increases fertility, ind that, too, in the most available form or immediate use.? Cultivator. Fat or Lean Pork. ''Feeding for lean meat" is the title of mlletin No. 19 of the Missouri Agricultural society. Previous bulletins have ihown that quite marked effects had >een produced on the relative proporions of fat to lerm in pork by different nelhods of feeding; that albuminous ood gives us lean meat, while carbonaseous foods like corn or corn meal ;n:rease the proportion of f?t. The latter txperiments registered in buletin No. 19 accord fuliy with the results of previous rials, and indicate that so far as the pig s conccrned we have it largely in our >ower to elect whethei our pork shall be nostlv crrease or sweet nourishing lean neat. *The late trial was with four >igs, one lot being fed on ship stuff and )lood, the other on corn or corn meal, ^oth lots w.igl:ed about like, but the )i?s fed on ship stuff and blood, highly ilbuminous food, had about forty per :ent. more lean exclusive of bone than he lot fed on corn meal. Much care vas taken to separate the lean from the at, two whole days being occupied in :utting up a single pig. Professor San >orn reminds farmers that the "block" s no test of breed influence in the :h*racter of uncut meat unless measured >v the character of the food given, and h:it raanngers of fat-stock shows skould ecognize this fact wh-n airanging their remiums and requirements. Feeders vill learn from these experiments that if hey *"ould increase the palatability of )ork for American taste they must feed heir pigs on something beside clear neal 01 corn. Milk, apples and roots rom the farm, and wheat middlings rom the markets mixed with meal will >roducc a better grade of pork, while at >e same time the cost will be dimin3hed. Rota'ion of Crops. A subscriber of the American Agricuiurist asks for information about rotation >f crops. In answer to the inquiry the 'griculturibt says: "This is one or cue i nost important questions relating to farm | vork, and deserves especial considera on. It has long been considered as inlispensable to good and successful faming, and there is no r-ason to suppose, inder the light of all the later knowlage derived from experiment and study. .8 well as improved practice, that the old aimers were mistaken. The old prac- 1 ice was to fo'low grain with a grass rop or with one which required frequent iultivation of the soil. This was so < irmly established that among the Engish farmers, whose crops on the average i iave more than doubled ours, ev* ry tennt was bound by his lease to conform o it and never to follow a g ain rv nn? nf tho I TUjl Willi niiuvm i vuv ?/i vmv amc kind. Hie reason for this viis, and is, that the growth of conBecu- ' jvc cro})> of the same kind rapidly cxmusts the soil or encourages t'.e growth if weeds. It is found in tho natural 1 frowih of plants and forests, that a cervin growth is generally succeeded?after t has attained its maturity?by a diifernt kind of negetation; for instance, ' vhen a pine forest has been cut off or ?->s been destroyed by fire, hard woods ucceed it, and when oaks or other hard voods have been cut off pints stow in their place. The old fields of the South are a standing example of this, and the 'old field pine' covers the abandoned land from which a hard-wood forest was cut off, to make room for tobacco and cotton. The explanation of this fact is, that hard woods are rich iu potash, and taking a large quantity of this element from the soil, leaves the land deficient in it and unable to produce another growth of hard woods: but as pine is rich in silica and poor m potash, the soil exhausted of potash and having an abundance of silica, produces the pine with ease, when it could not produce oaks, hickories and otner liara wooas. xne same pnncipio applies to farm crops, and hence wheat is followed by grass and clover and these with corn, and corn with oats and barley; and then the land is manured and wheat is grown again. In practice, we think this rotation is too short, and would be greatly improved by a root crop after corn, and oats or barley after the roots, with clover following, and the second year's clover plowed in for wheat, with which grass is sown, with clover added in the spring. But this, too, might be improved, perhapi, by sowing the grass and clover by themselves in the spring and not with the wheat, or early in the fall, as soon as the wheat is removed, thus permitting the soil to be thorougly prepared for the grass seeding, by which its success is greatly encouraged." Ground Bone for Poultry., Some of our fanning friends appear to be deeply impressed with the notion that hens need no food but corn in some of its forms. But we ought not to forget that food means the material for everything that comes out of the system, and that if any particular race takes up any special branch of manufacture they must have the raw material. All animals consume more or less lime; it is one of the principal elements entering into the composition of the bones, but the hen nesds an extra supply. Tin domesticated hen also needs more than wild stock of any sort, since she is stimulated to a greater production of eggs. In consequence we must give her more than is contained in the various grains. The most useful forms in which to give lime are in the shape of coarsely ground bone aud oyster shells; feed these articles most abundantlv at the time when the hens are laying the most freely, and anticipate, if possible, by beginning early in sonenn lpsf. vmir fowls fiiit a shel less egg and acquire bad habila. The importance of providing a lib ral supply of ground bone and oystershells for fowls, is less understood than it should be by breeders of poultry. Raw bone, coarsely ground, say half as large as grains of corn, is gree.lily eaten by fowls, especially if they arc not allowed to run at large; and well-conducted experiments have proved that it is not only ben^jjpial to th^ health of the fo'wl, but it also certainly stimulates and promotes laying to a very great extent. Now, while this effect of producing an increase in the number of eggs is certain, and not a newly claimed merit, we have arrived at the conclusion that it also increases the size of the eggs; and where there is any trouble with regard to the shells of the eggs, we have found it speedily remedied by a liberal use of ground raw boae and oyster shells. Every person who keeps even a few fowls should own a mill for grinding such food, as it will soin repay its cost. Boneand shell should be fed to fowls by putting it in a narrow box and nailing it to the side of the coop; we prefer this method, as it is less wasteful than throwing i? on the ground. To use tine bone beneficially,it is necessary to mix it with the soft food, and we have found it very useful in cases of diarrhoea in fowls, having cured bad cases of this disease in green fowls, in a single day, by the use of this article; to promote laying, however, it is necessary to have it ground coarse.?American Rural Home. ' Recipes. Stuffed Potatoes?Mince some cold meat very fine and s?ason it to taste. Choose large potatoes of one size and peel and core them, taking care not to core them through. Fill them with the minced meat and put them in a dish to bake, with a cupful of water and a little butter or nice beef dripping. If the potatoes are large they will require an hour to ba've; if small, half that time will be sufficient. Baked Omelet.?A generous pint of milk, four well-beaten egg*, one table spoonful of butter, one of dour and a little salt. Rub butter and flour to smooth paste and stir into milk when boiling, stirring constantly to keep smooth. Cool it, then add tne eggs h iving yolks and whites beaten separately. Pour into a buttered dish and bake in a quick oven twenty minutes. Serve immediately before it fills. ArPLE Dessert?Pare and core large, sweet apples, and fill with butter and sui ar* Set each apple on a round piece of a:ale, erustlcss uread. Put a little w; tjrin the pan, sprinkle sugar over all, and bake till dooe. Carefully remove to the serving dish and cover with an icing made of the whites of two eggs and powdered sugar. Dot over with bits of red, ar id jfillv. Or the apples may be baked without the bread, piled up in pyramid form, and frosted. Cabbage Soup.?Take a couple of summer cabbages; having removed the outside leaves, cut them in quarters, put them into a saucepan, with a good-sized piece 01 oacon (cm into pieces au iul-u wide down to the skin, which is to remain intact, and is ca^i'y cut through with the ladle when helping the soup), and a bag containing spice*, sweet herbs, plenty of whole pepper, a clove of garlic and salt if neccssary. Add a sufficient quantity of cold water to cover the whole, and then let the soup simmer till the cabbages are quite done, pcrving with a few slice3 of bread uaier it. Household Hints. Prepare the wicks f>r tallow candles by steeping them iD coal oil. 'They make a bright light. Put silverware in paper bags and tie the top with a string, and it will keep bright as new. In cutting corn-bread, do not forget to hold the knife perpendicularly, that the ej'Ongy interior of the loaf may not be crushed into heaviness. To remove'the tops of. fruit jars that cannot be started by hand, dip a d >th into very hot water and apply t> the outside of the cap; this will cause it to expand. A Grave Matter. "? -3? 1 ? ?1, ? 1 WUIiUtn luut uuu^c pcujui; vwiiu u.^cu to go to church in winter without having any fires there didn't die," remarked Mrs. Lirily the other da v. '' They did, my dear," serenely returned the husband from behind his paper. "Oh, yes," said she, somewhat nettled, "of course* but I mean that it is strange th y didn't die before their appointed time." "People never do," replied the severe Liffly. Mrs. Liffly looked very dignified, but . ventured no further comments. I ; I FEATHERY PETS. " ; THE TRADE IN TUNEFUL BIRDS OF BRILLIANT PLUMAGE.* Something Also Abont Monkeys and Other Gentle Pets Without Wings?Rare Birds that Bring Big Prices. A reporter for the Tribune recently visited a number of the places where the' demand for household pets is supplied. Entering a store where a number of cages were displayed in the window, and in front of which several street urchins were enjoying the sight of the gaylyplumed birds in brass and painted cages, he was met by a chipper young woman, wno readily responded to 111s inquiries. The first batch of information was lost to the seeker after it in a pandemonium of howls, yells and screeches. However, becoming somewhat accustomed to the uncanny noises, he comprehended that she was bewailing the paucity of trade. "Monkeys?" went on the young wo- \ man, in response to further inquiries.,."No, we haven't one in the store, and I hope I may never see one of them again as long as I live. They're just a nuisance, ' and that's all. I never could see nothing funny in them. "We haven't had one ir the house for a month. Let's see, the * last one was a Capuchin, and we sold it to a newly-married couple who live in >^1 Denver. They were awfully rich, and | had a conservatory lor nowers, you I know, and the lady said she th >ught a monkey in the conservatory wouU look J just too cute for anything. And the , husband?well, I could see that anything she wanted she could have. They bought the monkey. I'm perfectly sure of one thing: by this time they either haven't any monkey or they haven't any conservatory. A 'monk' is death on plants ol any kind. Why, this same monkey we'd sold once before to an artist on Monrot street, who said he wanted it for an orna- ment for his studio, whatever that /is. The artist lent the beast to a man wh? was growing a century plant on the lakt front, together with a museum. Thai ^ monkey consumed the century plan? one night for a late supper, and it didn't die- > ' r:\ turb his digestion any more than if it bad been a Welsh rarebit. I don't know what kind of a century plant it was. It might have been a young plant. Any* how, back went 'monk'to the artist and thon back here, when the owner of the shop bought him in again at half price; We had a monkey here once that had M hmfam jirm. He couldn't use it, but a ' 'd man bought him just the same. He 9aid he was a doctor. So I suppose he wanted to experiment on him." The reporter was tired of monkey talk and turned to the occupants of the cages. "Those love birds there," said the accomplished young woman, "don't sing, -but we sell 'em for $5 a pair. Thai there's a Toucan. He's worth $35." Thf ^ bird alluded to appeared to the uninitiated eye neither valuablo for its beauty of plumage nor sweetness of voice. It if a native of Central America, and, though in appearance quite as revolutionary as most of the denizens of that part of the globe, has the one redeeming virtue ol being gentle and incapable of the ferocitj which its villanous-looking beak would suggest. "That bird," said the reporter's informant, pointing tn a fat little creature , contentedly warbling to itself, ' 'that bird is a Japanese robin, and the price of it is $8." This art cle in the feathered lint resembles the ordinary robin in appearance, except in the fact that it is nearlj . as bright-hued as a parrot. The demand, the Tribune's representative was informed, is greatest for canaries, after which come mocking-birda. Tiae sale of black caps, a bird whose title betrays its chief characteristic, he wai told, came next in the estimation of fan ciers, to the nightingales as song-birds. ... , ? The only further information volun- - ^ teered wa* that Guinea-pigs were rated in the household-pet market at from $2 to $2.50 per pair. ' At another establishment, similar c the one just described, there were tin same rows of cages, containing canaries, parrots, do res and pigeons; the same assortment of aquariums, abounding iv gold and silver fish. In a c<.rner of ? cage fully fifty tiny white mice were huddled closely together. Gray pigeons . - ^ and white d<?ves cooed plaintively from dark places under the counter. On i high perch sat a most haughty looking parrot, evidently proud of its brilliant plumage and yet oblivious to the fac; that its tail feathers were dis ^raqefullj deficient in number. Other parrots tuer? were whose feathers were colored by nature with hues the blending of whici successfuly djfies man's cruie idea of tt? proper har.r.ony o, tints. Three dimina . tive marmosets looked lortn irom iner. retreat with their bright, sparkling eyes, seemingly full of good nature. As f matter of fact they are almost untamable. As they darted about their cagt they resembled so many hairy comcfc?, the disproportionate size of their tails t? their bodies producing that effect. Like the first store visited the noisei were indescribable. Let one immnguu sounds composed of commingled ahs, ees, aaas, ooos, and uuus, which -ver< shrieked from every nook and corner. Away from all light fully a dozen littl* parrots were wasting their gorgeousnesi in dark, dilapidated cages. A disconsolate and solitary monKey scrat< lied Ills c eek in an embarrassed way as the r* porter approached its cage and added evidence to the "origin-of-species' doo trine by his perfect frenzy of fear and auger whenjie first got a glimpse of th? reporter. BeTore the reporter naa ieic, however, the animal had so far suo curabeJ to the usual course of coaxing adopted by interviewers that he betrayed a very evident curiosity as to what kind of a queer bird his visitor might be. H? even went so far as to attempt to relata his personal grievances in doleful chatter. His confidence will never be betrayed. An employe stated that tho foreign birds are all brought from New Yorr, where the jobbers buy them as they are brought from the ships.?Chicago Tribune. The "King Beet." A Washington letter to the Chicago Inter-Ocean say9: I heard a good sto: j about Flovd Kinw. the member of Con ^ ~ o? gress frum Louisiana, the other day. Last year the Agricultural Department introduced a new kind of beet which waa labeled "The King Beet" becaue it was believed to be the monarch of that branch of the vegetable kingdom. Congressman King was quite gratified at the ( election of this name and at once saw & w:iy to tuwi it to political profit. He went through the House of Representatives and traded off all his other seeds and documents for seeds of the King Beet and sent a package to every fanner in his district. They all "caught on," r.nd now lire under the impression that <hcir Congressman ia the patron saiotal beets. .-v..'.':.; .